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Date Published: August 2015

Supersedes: FIPS 180-4 (03/06/2012)

Planning Note (03/07/2023): After two rounds of public comment, NIST has decided to revise FIPS 180-4.

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This standard specifies hash algorithms that can be used to generate digests of messages. The digests are used to detect whether messages have been changed since the digests were generated.

Keywords

computer security; cryptography; message digest; hash function; hash algorithm; Federal Information Processing Standards; Secure Hash Standard

Control Families

System and Communications Protection; System and Information Integrity

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